Double Reel Film Podcast

Issue 48 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features. The Classic we've just got round to seeing is Touch of Evil, and the Hidden Gem we think you should check out is Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai. Our final ever One That Got Away discusses how Martin Scorsese nearly made House of Gucci 20 years before Ridley Scott did it, and our Remake Hatewatch l...

Another packed issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off with April's Double Reel Monthly, covering news, new releases, reviews of new films and how we're getting in with our annual film projects. New films include Immaculate, Ricky Stanicki, Road House, a catch up on the Beekeeper and two films featuring friend of the pod Jamie B Chambers: Morris Men and The Sha...

The Adamsons bring Issue 47 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd to a close with the Big Conversation. As always we aim to entertain you by taking a longer look at a big topic from the film world, and this month we mark the end of awards season with our Oscar Chat. We look at the big winners and losers, how we thought it went and whether 2024 was a good year, and what's nex...

Issue 47 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features, and for this issue we are focusing on East Asian cinema. Our Classics and Recommended is the notorious Takashi Miike psychological horror Audition, followed by our Hidden Gem the Korean cold war thriller Steel Rain. Our One that Got Away discusses how legendary filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai spent years near...

Issue 47 of the monthly magazine film podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the latest Penalty Shootout Film Quiz, the fiendish and needlessly complicated battle of trivia skills between your co-hosts. The score is 5-0 to James (no the other one) going into this month's instalment, with James (yes that one) still desperate to get a win on the board. The forfeits remain - James (no th...

The Adamsons are back with the latest issue of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. Released in four parts through the month, we start with Double Reel Monthly, featuring news, new releases, reviews of new films including Dune Part 2, The Zone of Interest, Madame Web and The Kitchen, our Women Directors project feature Nomadland and the latest in our Year of the...

Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation. This month we talk about our favourite films of the 2010s. We imposed a few rules on ourselves for the chat: We could only pick one best film of each year in the decade; we each had to suggest a nomination and duke it out over which went in; and Best Picture Oscar winners were admissible. Thi...

Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the latest drop of our regular Features episode. The theme this month is films about the television industry, with Classics and Recommended Network, Hidden Gem Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The One that Got Away - Jacques Tati's Confusion and Remake Hatewatch Bewitched. As a bonus we also look at the remake we'...

Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the fiendish Penalty Shootout Film Quiz. James (no the other one) is yet to win a quiz, with the score currently 5-0 to James (yes that one).  As always our intrepid hosts face off in the format of a penalty shootout (like from the footy) and the winner gets to make the loser watch a film they're going to hate. Wi...

Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off with its first instalment, Double Reel Monthly with news, a look at new releases coming soon, new films we watched in the past month and the latest in our "New Year Resolution" annual project. James (no the other one) continues his spotlight on women director's with Ava Du Vernay's Selma and James (yes that one) kicks...

Issue 45 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with our Big Conversation, and as it's our first of the year we're giving you our Annual Awards show for excellence and otherwise for the films of 2023.   As usual we go strictly on films that got their full release in the calendar year, and as usual we bring you innovative awards you don't get elsewhere such as bigges...

Issue 45 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features. This month our theme is films about films and the film industry. Our Classic is Robert Altman's The Player, our Hidden Gem is Tim Burton's lesser-known Ed Wood, the One That Got Away is the epic tale of Orson Welles trying and failing to make a film about a great director trying to make a film, and o...

The second instalment of Double Reel Issue 45, the fiendish, complicated and keenly contested Penalty Shootout Film Quiz. Currently the score stands at 5-0 to James (no the other one) and James (yes that one) is desperate to claw his way back into contention. The forfeits for the loser this month: James (no the other one) will have to watch The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou if he loses, but if it...

Back with a bang for the New Year, it's the Adamsons and the monthly magazine for the discerning film nerd. First up in our latest issue: Double Reel Monthly, with news, new releases, a look at new films including Three Musketeers Milady, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part 1, The Burial and Saltburn, the first film in a new film project about women directors starting with CODA and a preview of another...

Another special bonus anthology episode for your waiting ears. This compiles all the monthly entries in James (yes that one)'s annual project looking at films by the great David Cronenberg. This consists of nine films I hadn't seen before, followed by three of his best classics. Our other anthology episode Legal Cage of Consent was released last week which you might also like.

A special bonus anthology episode featuring all the films James (no the other one) discussed in his special project for 2023. For every month of the year he got the mighty online Nic Cage randomiser to select a film for him to watch then told us about it. Whether it was good Cage, bad Cage or just paying the bills Cage, we covered it for you. Our other special project The Cronenberg Institute will...

The Adamsons conclude Issue 44 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd with the Big Conversation, where we dig into a topic from the film world in more detail. In keeping with our overall theme this month we discuss and agree Double Reel's Top 10 Ridley Scott Films. The other parts of Issue 44 are already available to download including Double Reel Monthly, Penalty Shootout Fi...

Issue 44 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with a very Ridley Scott themed episode. Our Classic is his feminist road movie Thelma & Louise, our Hidden Gem is his less heralded debut The Duellists, The One That Got Away explores how Kubrick (one of Scott's idols) failed to get a Napoleon film off the ground 50 years before Sir Ridley made his version, and ou...

Issue 44 of the monthly magazine film quiz for the discerning film nerd continues with the Penalty Shootout Film Quiz, the fiendishly complicated and keenly contested test of film trivia prowess. The Adamsons face off to see who will win the quiz question shootout, with a forfeit awaiting the loser in the form of a film they really don't want to see, vindictively selected for them by the winner. T...

The Adamsons close out 2023 with the latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. We have a general theme this month, with all episodes linking in some way to the release of Ridley Scott's new Napoleon film. We release it in four parts to keep your podcast app busy through the month and over the festive period. This is Double Reel Monthly with news, new releases, revi...

The Adamsons conclude Issue 43 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd with the Big Conversation. This month our cinematic deep dive discussed our movie watching Bucket Lists - the films you want to try and watch on the big screen at least once in your live. We talk about bucket list films we've already seen, films we dream of seeing at the cinema one day, and the films we thi...

Issue 43 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features. Our Classic is bonkers French period action horror The Brotherhood of the Wolf; the Hidden Gem is Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn; The One That Got Away features Spielberg's attempt to make The Trial of the Chicago 7; our Remake Hatewatch is the superflous 2007 version of The Invasion; and finally we ask...

Another round of the fiendish Penalty Shootout Film Quiz, where the Adamsons battle it out to see who has the best knowledge of cinematic trivia. The winner gets to force the loser to perform a forfeit and watch a film they're really going to hate. The score is currently 5-0 to James (no the other one) and James (yes that one) to claw his way back into contention. Last month the loser had to watch...

The Adamsons are back with Issue 43 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. Double Reel monthly is the first instalment with news, a look at new releases coming our way, reviews of new films including the new ones from Scorsese and Fincher, and the latest in our annual projects Legal Cage of Consent and The Cronenberg Institute.  WARNING: contains spoilers for Mission Impossi...

Issue 42 of the monthly magazine for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, where the Adamsons dig into a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we look at the fine art of making comedy films, why it shouldn't be so much harder than other genres but somehow it is, how tastes in comedy and the economics of comedy films have changed over the years, and whether ca...